40 BULLETIN OP THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



1877. (See List of the Fishes of Nova Scotia, Nova 

 Scotia Institute of Nat. Sc, Vol. V., Pt I., 1879.) 



The Sea Raven, H. Acadiensis Storer, is not by any 

 means a rare iish in St. John Harbour, where it is taken 

 in the weirs. Several of such specimens have been ex- 

 amined by the writer. Both it and the Thick-lipped 

 Eelpout, Zoarces OKguiUaris Storer, occur in the Mira- 

 michi Bay. Z. ciUatus, a variety of the latter, is found 

 in the same ba}". They differ in the relative size of tha 

 head and jaws. 



The fresh water species, 3Ioxostomus oblongus Ayres ; 

 Esox retieulatus Le. Sueur; PomoLis apjoendix Mitchill ; 

 and Labrax albidus DeKay, call for a few observations. 



The first, known as the Chub-sucker, is Cjuite common 

 in small lowland streams ; but is disappearing from its 

 former haunts since the introduction of the pickerel. 

 The latter had not been planted in the waters of New 

 Brunswick in Perley's time ; but has become quite com- 

 mon in the lower course of the St. John, which is the 

 northern limit of its distribution in the province. The 

 third, Pomotis appendix, is a percoid fish, locally known 

 as the " Long-eared Sun-Fish," and quite common from 

 Maine to Louisiana. Dr. Adams assigns no locality for 

 it in New Brunswick ; but the White Lake-Bass, he tells 

 us occurs in " Oromocto Lake, one of the headwaters of 

 the Magaguadavic." Special inquiry was made by the 

 writer about this fish from settlers around the lake, but 

 none had ever seen it. 



The Many-Spined Stickleback is found all over the 

 province ; but the Northern Sculpin does not appear to 

 have been observed on our coast since his time. 



To sum up : Perley identified fifty-seven specific forms. 

 Dr. Adams added eleven new ones, making a total of 

 sixty-eight species, as the joint work of these two 

 pioneers. 



